×


 x 

Shopping cart
23%OFFHonore De Balzac - Eugenie Grandet - 9780140440508 - V9780140440508
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.

Eugenie Grandet

€ 13.99
€ 10.73
You save € 3.26!
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Eugenie Grandet Paperback. In a gloomy house in provincial Saumur, the miser Grandet lives with his wife and daughter, Eugenie, whose lives are stifled and overshadowed by his obsession with gold. Guarding his piles of glittering treasures and his only child equally closely, he will let no one near them. Translator(s): Crawford, Marion. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 192.

Depicting the fatal clash between material desires and the liberating power of human passions, Honoré de Balzac's Eugénie Grandet is translated with an introduction by M.A. Crawford in Penguin Classics.

In a gloomy house in provincial Saumur, the miser Grandet lives with his wife and daughter, Eugénie, whose lives are stifled and overshadowed by his obsession with gold. Guarding his piles of glittering treasures and his only child equally closely, he will let no one near them. But when the arrival of her handsome cousin, Charles, awakens Eugénie's own desires, her passion brings her into a violent collision with ... Read more

Show Less

Product Details

Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1955
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780140440508
SKU
V9780140440508
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99

About Honore De Balzac
Balzac was born in 1799, the son of a civil servant. At the age of thirty - heavily in debt and with an unsucessful past behind him - he started work on the first of what were to become a total of ninety novels and short stories that make up The Human Comedy. He died in 1850. M. ... Read more

Reviews for Eugenie Grandet

Goodreads reviews for Eugenie Grandet


Subscribe to our newsletter

News on special offers, signed editions & more!